From Cotton to T-Shirt (Start to Finish)

Nelson, Robin

ISBN 10: 0822546612 ISBN 13: 9780822546610

Publisher: Lerner Pub Group, 2003

Synopsis

Describes how cotton is grown, and how that cotton is processed, spun into thread, woven into cloth, cut and sewn to make a t-shirt.

About this title

About the Author:

Robin Nelson is a former elementary teacher and the author of many children's nonfiction books in the First Step Nonfiction, Pull Ahead, and Start to Finish series. She lives with her family in Minneapolis.

From Booklist:

Reviewed with Robin Nelson's From Kernel to Corn.

PreS-Gr. 2. These small, square titles in the Start to Finish series give a basic overview of where familiar products come from, written in language that's suitable for beginning readers. Spreads in both books feature a few sentences in large print on a white page opposite a full-page color photo that shows a stage in production, from planting to seed growth to picking and harvesting. Cotton shows how T-shirts are made and includes several stages in the manufacturing process, such as close-ups of thread making, mechanical weaving, dyeing, and cutting. Corn finishes its journey at a farmer's market, although a commercial grocery store would have been more familiar to most young children. But both titles offer solid introductions that will encourage the youngest readers to consider the history of other familiar items. A glossary rounds out each title. Gillian Engberg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0822546612
• ISBN 13: 9780822546610
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 24